Design-Nation

For over 20 years, Design-Nation’s leading membership portfolio has celebrated the diversity of UK-based makers and designers. A joyful range of collectible objects will be presented: beautiful, sensitively crafted and multi-hued. Exhibits include two- and three-dimensional wall-hung artworks, decorative vessels, jewellery, sculpture and tableware in ceramic, glass, leather, metal, paper, textile and wood.

Design-Nation is distinctive both for its support and promotion of designer/makers, and its partnership programmes. The portfolio, selected by an independent expert panel, Comprises a rich pool of highly skilled designer-makers whose collective works demonstrate authentic, exceptional craftsmanship and design ability. In collaboration with UK-wide partners, champions and funders, Design-Nation’s aim is to strengthen business and creative development opportunities for the contemporary design and craft sector.

Artists

• Ash & Plumb (wood)
• Amelia Ayerst (embroidery)
• Kate Bajic (jewellery)
• Jan Bowman (weaving)
• Ella Fearon-Low (jewellery)
• Fung + Bedford (paper) - installation at Stamp Staircase
• Diane Griffin (ceramics)
• G. R. Hawes (glass)
• Christine Meyer-Eaglestone (marquetry)
• Janine Partington (leather)
• Clare Pentlow (paper)
• Margo Selby (weaving)
• Helen Slater Stokes (glass)
• Mari Thomas (jewellery)
• Sasha Wardell (ceramics)

Contact

The Hub, Navigation Wharf
Carre Street, Sleaford
Lincolnshire NG34 7TW
UK
(correspondence only)

Clare Edwards
Director

@design_nationuk